Menu

Hollywood fiction from inside the entertainment biz......... Short stories written by Hollywood film and television writers, executives, journalists, authors, critics......... All short stories are fictional and do not depict any actual person or event......... No more paywall......... Showbiz short stories and book excerpts posted here for free......... Read the fiction on any device: desktop, laptop, iPad, tablet, mobile phone......... Post your comments......... Know that writers and their works will receive recognition for creating original content......... Support this innovative enterprise with a donation......... Advertise on Hollywood Dementia to reach influencers......... All short stories are fictional and do not depict any actual person or event.........

About Jordan Riefe

Jordan Riefe Is a voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. He began as a camera assistant working with directors like Steven Soderbergh and Tom Hanks and later wrote a screenplay produced in China. He switched to journalism and currently serves as West Coast theatre critic for The Hollywood Reporter while also covering art and culture for The Guardian, Cultured Magazine, LA Weekly and KCET Artbound. He recently finished the showbiz novel Dead For A Living which is excerpted here.
View all posts by Jordan Riefe →

Jordan Riefe Is a voting member of the Broadcast Film Critics Association. He began as a camera assistant working with directors like Steven Soderbergh and Tom Hanks and later wrote a screenplay produced in China. He switched to journalism and currently serves as West Coast theatre critic for The Hollywood Reporter while also covering art and culture for The Guardian, Cultured Magazine, LA Weekly and KCET Artbound. He recently finished the showbiz novel Dead For A Living which is excerpted here.

by Jordan Riefe

A dispirited film journalist in Hollywood is having a dismal time in this book excerpt. 2,777 words. Illustration by Thomas Warming. It sucked being on the Red Carpet again. It may seem exciting on TV, but in real life it’s a drag. It’s always at the end of the day, your feet are hurting and […]

Hollywood Dementia:noun. Defined as the deterioration of intellectual faculties, such as memory, concentration, and judgment, while working in the entertainment industry that causes someone to be unable to understand what is real and what is not real.